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Grimes Man Checks Hot Lotto Ticket Weeks Later, Discovers $10,000 Win

Robert Sinnott Won Big Prize in May 1 Hot
Lotto® Drawing

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DES MOINES, Iowa - A Grimes man now knows he won a $10,000 Hot Lotto prize after finally checking his ticket.

"Well I collect them. And about every two months I
go in and scan them," Robert Sinnott said. "I
usually get about $40 in winnings."

Sinnott, 61, had purchased his tickets at Kum & Go,
801 N. First St. in Grimes, and went back there to
use the self-checker to scan his lotto tickets.

"This time it scanned $10,000 and I wasn't sure what
I read," Sinnott said. "And so I scanned it again."

Sinnott, a registered postal clerk, claimed his
prize Thursday at Iowa Lottery headquarters in Des
Moines and said he's already got plans for most of
his winnings.

"I've already spent most of that on helping my
daughters get a new car and stuff," he said. "It
goes to good places."

Sinnott's $10,000-winning ticket came close to
winning it all in the May 1 drawing, matching the
first five numbers but missing the Hot Ball. The
winning numbers in the $5.47 million Hot Lotto
jackpot drawing that night were: 9-17-25-28-33 and
Hot Ball 4.

Sales of the revamped Hot Lotto game began on May
12. The game now has an all-cash jackpot with
withholding taxes paid, meaning that if the
advertised jackpot is $2 million, the winner will
receive a one-time, lump-sum payment for that full
amount.

In addition to the change in the jackpot, several
other prize levels in the game were also increased.
The eight non-jackpot prize levels in the redesigned
game range from $2 (unchanged) for matching the Hot
Ball alone up to $30,000 (formerly $10,000, which
Sinnott won prior to the game's change) for matching
the first five numbers but missing the Hot Ball. All
nonjackpot prizes still triple with the additional
$1 Sizzler option, meaning a player would win
$90,000 for matching the first five numbers with the
Sizzler option added.

Hot Lotto players now choose five numbers from a
pool of 47 and another number, called the Hot Ball,
from a pool of 19. The Hot Lotto jackpot starts at
$1 million and grows until someone wins it. Tickets
in the game cost $1. Hot Lotto drawings are held at
about 9:40 p.m. on Wednesdays and Saturdays, just
before the Powerball drawings.

The updated game was introduced with the 3X the
Sizzle promotion for this spring and summer offering
85 prizes of free gas.

Players can purchase a 3X the Sizzle ticket which is
three Hot Lotto with the Sizzler easy pick plays for
$5, normally $6. During the 3X the Sizzle promotion,
the lottery terminal will automatically generate a
bonus offer trailing ticket containing a special
code the player can enter on the lottery website for
a chance to win ethanol promotional checks for free
fuel from the Iowa Corn Growers Association. Players
can purchase 3X the Sizzle tickets from May 12
through July 13, and can enter the promotion until
noon on July 23 at www.ialottery.com.

The lottery will select 85 winners of ethanol checks
in a drawing July 25. Fifty players will each win
$100 in ethanol checks, 25 each will win $250 in
checks and 10 each will win $500 in checks.

There was no jackpot winner in May 1 drawing.
Wednesday's estimated jackpot is $6.66 million.

Winning numbers may be checked at the lottery
website at www.ialottery.com or through the winning
numbers' hot line at (515) 323-4633. Winning numbers
may also be checked with lottery retail outlets or
by calling the lottery at (515) 725-7900 from 8 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday.

Players may visit the Iowa Lottery at 2323 Grand
Ave. in Des Moines or go to one of the lottery's
regional offices in Council Bluffs, Storm Lake,
Mason City or Cedar Rapids to claim prizes.

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